Bubble-blower.



PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1904.

P. D. HORTON.

BUBBLE BLOWER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1903.

NO MODEL...

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UNITED STATES Patented September 20, 1904.

PATENT OEErcE.

PETER D. HORTON, OF NEWARK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGEHORTON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRIOT OF COLUMBIA.

BUBBLE-BLOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,288, datedSeptember 20,1904.

Application filed September 30, 1903. Serial No. 175,227. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER D. HORTON, of Newark, in the county of Wayneand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBubble-Blowers, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved bubble-blower,

T0 the same being a toy for blowing multiple soap-bubblessimultaneously, one small one or a series of small ones within an outerlarge one, the invention being hereinafter fully described, and moreparticularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had inthis specification to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bubbleblower as in use. Fig. 2 is anaxial section on the broken dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1, the inner tubebeing only partly in longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a front end view ofthe bubble-blower, seen as indicated by arrow 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is anaxial'section of parts 2 5 at the rear end of the device, taken on thedotted line i in Fig. 2, further showing the form of the mouthpiece.Fig. 5 is a plan of the cork detached. Fig. 6 is an axial section of apart of the barrel at the rear end thereof,

taken on the dotted line 4 in Fig. 2, showing the mouthpiece reversed.Fig. 7 is an axial section of a part of the barrel and the containedcork, taken on the vertical dotted line 7 in Fig. 3.

Referring to the parts shown, A is the body or barrel of thebubble-blower open at both ends and made tapering, as shown, the barrelbeing usually made of sheet metal, as tin. At its front or flaring end,where the outer 4 bubble E is formed, the barrel is provided with abroad flange or ring a, preferably of sheet metal, which may be, ifdesired, set slightly back from the extreme end of the barrel, asclearly shown in Fig. 1. A mouthpiece or tip O, preferably of yieldingor compressible material, as soft wood or cork, is provided for thesmall end of the barrel A, through which to blow the breath in formingin front to give to the barrel a desirable position while the bubblesare forming, or, if it be wished at times to have the mouthpiece coaxialwith the barrel, the former will be reversed, inserting its straight oruncut end in the barrel, as shown in Fig. 6.

Within the barrel A, near its front end and fitted to the taper of thebarrel, is an elastic body or cork B, not rigidly fixed in place,v

but longitudinally adjustable in the barrel. This cork or body is hollowor formed with an axial bore or cylindrical cavity 7), into which isinserted a tube D, at the outer end of which the small inner bubbles gare formed. The tube is longitudinally adjustable in the cork and holdsto place therein by friction,

its outer end projecting beyond the front end of the barrel, as shown.The bore 6 does not extend wholly through the cork, there being a thinwall 0 left at the inner end, pierced by a small axial opening dopposite the bore of the tube D, through which opening d the part of thebreath flows that goes to form the small interior bubbles g.

The cork or body B is not a perfect frus turn of a cone, it being cutaway from end to end at opposite sides to form longitudinal passages e ffor air flowing from the mouthpiece C to form the outer bubble E. Thepassage 6 at the upper side of the cork is larger than the passage f atthe lower side, so that a greater volume of air blown into the barrelwill flow to the outer bubble along near the upper wall of the barrelthan the lower wall for the purpose of causing said bubble while formingto slightly rise above the end of the tube D, as shown in Fig. 1. Inthis slightly-elevated position, with its center above the axial line ofthe barrel, the

outer bubble will be more nearly concentric with the inner bubble g,simultaneously forming at the end of the tube D, with less liability ofcontact between the bubbles and consequent mixing of the films.

The tube D is cut away at its upper side at the outer end, as shown inFig. l, to form an extended rest or lodge h for holding and steadyingthe inner bubble 9 while forming.

The cork or body B being movable in the barrel admits of its beingshifted toward the small end of the barrel, as may be required, to makeit tight therein should it become loose from any cause, the tube D beinglongitudinallyadjusted in the cork whenever the latter is thus shiftedto maintain a uniformity of projection of the outer end of the tube fromthe mouth of the barrel A.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bubble-blower having a barrel, a cork in the barrel, and a tubeheld by the cork and projecting at the forward end of the barrel, and areversible mouthpiece at the rear end of the barrel constructed to beengaged in said barrel coaxially therewith or at an angle to its axis.

2. A bubble-blower having a barrel, a cork in the barrel, and a tubeheld by the cork and projecting at the forward end of the barrel, and amouthpiece at the rear end of the barrel, having one end provided withslanting sides whereby the axes of the barrel and of the mouthpiece forman angle.

3. A bubble-blower having a tapered hollow barrel open at both ends, atube extending beyond the end of the barrel and formed with a rest for abubble, means for holding the tube coaxially within the barrel, andpermitting longitudinal adjustment thereof, a mouthpiece at the smallerend of the barrel, and a ring surrounding the opposite end of thebarrel.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 24Eth day ofSeptember, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER D. HORTON.

WVitnesses:

T. D. PRESCOTT, FRANCES WRIGHT.

